Mechanically-operated indicator.



C.-E. TAYLOR. MECHAWICALLY OPERATED INDICATOR. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 19. 1915.

1,2393% Patented Sept. 11, 1917.

W/ T/VESSES:

CHARLES E. TAYLOR, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

MECHANIGALLY-OPERATED INDICATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 11,1917.

Application filed August 19, 1915. Serial No. 46,221.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Seattle, in the county of King, State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mechanically- Operated Indicators, of which the following is a full, true, and exact specification.

My invention relates to improvements in mechanically operated indicators, and has for its principal object to provide a novel indicator for automobiles which will inclicate the direction in which the auto intends turning without the necessity of holding the hand of the driver out to one side as is usualand required by the traffic regulations in many cities. The removal of one hand from the steering wheel reduces the drivers ability to handle the wheel and levers necessary to proper driving on a crowded street.

Other objects will appear as my invention ismore fully explained in the following specification, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a fragmentary elevation of a dash board of an automobile with my device in operative position thereon.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation of the housing of my device with parts broken away. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of Fig. 2.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, numeral 1 indicates a housing, open at the front and having a slot at the rear as at 2. The housing may be secured to a dash board as in Fig. 1 or may have a supporting flange 3 as in Figs. 2 and 3. A lazy tongs 4:, has one member pivoted to the housing by a rivet 5, while the other member is secured to a slide 6, which is adapted to slide up and down in slot 2. The raising of the slide 6, closes the lazy tongs 4, and an indicator hand 7, which is secured to the outer end of the tongs 4c, Witllllithfi housing 1.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the The lowering of the slide 6 opens the tongs as shown in Fig. 1 and allows the hand 7 to, extend beyond the side of the automobile. Slide 6 is provided with lateral, side flanges 8 and a finger piece 9, the former to hold the slide in proper alinement and the latter to raise and lower it.

It is thought that the construction and operation of my device will be clearly understood from the foregoing specification.

\Vhile I have shown a particular form of embodiment of my invention, I am aware that many minor changes therein will readily suggest themselves to others skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, and I therefore desire to avoid being limited to the exact form shown and described except as pointed out in theappended claim.

Having described my invention, what I now claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

A signaling device for vehicles, comprising a vertically elongated housing open on one side and provided on its opposite side with a vertical slot, a slide including a vertical member which extends through the slot and lateral side flanges which overlap the outer edges of the walls of the slot, a finger piece extending from the outer face of the flanged end of the slide, a series of lazy tongs extending from the vertical housing, a pivot connecting the inner end of one of the tongs to the housing, a pivot connecting the inner end of the corresponding tong to the slide, and a signal on the outer end of the lazy tongs, whereby when the finger piece is vertically depressed the lazy tongs and signal carried thereby will be forced outwardly from the housing.

CHARLES E. TAYLOR.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). 0. 

